Your child's first encounter with plurals will come as an introduction to the concept of there being one of something, or more than one of something. This comes with the associated word difference, and for most words we just add an 's' to the end.
Elementary Punctuation
We'll start with the basics which kids are exposed to in kindergarten and first grade, and then move on through the years to the trickier elements that children are expected to tackle in fourth and fifth grade, towards the end of elementary school.
All About Phonics - an Explainer for Parents
The individual sounds are called 'phonemes' and the way they look when they are written down (the letter or groups of letters that we use to spell the sound) are called 'graphemes'.
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In Year 1, all children in England take a phonics check. It's not a test, and it's nothing that parents or children can really prepare for. It simply allows schools to check that pupils have learned phonics to an appropriate standard for their age.
Number formation
The correctly way to write numbers, the right way to write digits 0-9
Capital letter formation
correct uppercase capital letter formation
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Capital letter formation
correct uppercase capital letter formation
Lower case letter formation
Forming letters with the right start and end points makes things easier in the long run.
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